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Although public attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
...reads well in Peoria." Like most of Reagan's hand-carved one-liners (which is about all we get these days), this remark was ambiguously simple. It seems a criticism of two papers unpopular with right-wingers, but in Reagan fashion it was a bite without a sting. The remark could also be read, suggests David R. Gergen, the White House's director of communications, as implying that people in Peoria are more receptive to Reagan's message...
...outward appearances, it was a routine business transaction involving a foreign corporation and a Stateside consulting firm. In fact, it turned out to be part of a transcontinental sting operation that snared some of the world's biggest electronics companies...
...culminated a cloak-and-data caper extraordinaire, the FBI's most ambitious sting since Operation Abscam netted seven Congressmen for taking bribes two years ago. Glenmar was an FBI front operation set up to deal with the problem of industrial espionage in the fast-track microelectronics industry. Winding up investigations that lasted eight months...
...great rise in two-income families has decreased, although not eliminated, the sting of unemployment. In 1941 only 29% of women were in the labor force, whereas today the figure is 52%. About half of all wage-earning families now have two or more salaries. Double joblessness, though, is becoming a problem. Last year the unemployment rate for women whose husbands were unemployed was about...